Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A management system of one or more table games in a casino having a plurality of gaming tables, the management system comprising: a camera configured to capture an image of a gaming table of the plurality of gaming tables including a plurality of betting areas and chips wagered on the betting areas, each of the betting areas corresponding to a respective player position of a plurality of player positions; and a control device; wherein: the management system is configured to identify respective players playing at the player positions; and the control device is configured to: process the image using artificial intelligence technology or a neural network based image recognition technology to determine one or more positions, one or more types, and one or more numbers of the wagered chips; and calculate respective amounts of the wagered chips of the identified players respectively.
2. The managing system according to claim 1 , wherein the control device is configured to calculate a respective amount of the wagered chips for each of the player positions, and thereby associates the respective calculated amounts with the respective identified players.
3. The managing system according to claim 1 , further comprising a data storage, wherein the control device is configured to store a history of the respective amount of the wagered chips of the respective players.
4. The managing system according to claim 1 , wherein the identification of the respective players is performed by identifying respective identifications (ID) provided to the players.
5. The managing system according to claim 1 , wherein the control device is further configured to calculate a total amount of the wagered chips of the betting areas.
6. The managing system according to claim 5 , wherein the control device is configured to calculate the total amount each time a predefined number of the games are over.
7. The managing system according to claim 5 , further comprising a data storage, wherein the control device is configured to store a history of the total amount of the wagered chips of the betting areas.
8. The managing system according to claim 1 , wherein the control device is further configured to calculate a total amount of the wagered chips of the betting areas for each of the players respectively, a total amount of winning chips for each of the players respectively, or a total amount of losing chips for each of the players respectively.
9. The managing system according to claim 1 , wherein the control device is configured to: for each of the games: recognize a history of the respective game; and for each of the players, calculate a respective amount of a change of chips, by increase or decrease, in the respective game based on a respective win or lose result of the respective game; and for each of the players, recognize a history of win or lose and amounts of income/expenditure of the respective player at each lapse of a predetermined number of the games.
10. The managing system according to claim 9 , further comprising a game result processor, wherein the game result processor is configured to determine the respective win or lose results of each of the one or more games.
11. The managing system according to claim 1 , wherein the control device is configured to: identify an individual one of the players as being in a strange situation in which a respective betting amount, a respective winning amount, and/or a respective win and lose history is strange compared with statistical data; and output an indication of existence of the identified individual player.
12. The managing system according to claim 11 , wherein the strange situation is at least one of: 1) a situation in which the respective winning amount is more than a predetermined winning amount; 2) a situation in which a state of a respective betting amount of betting chips at a lose time being small and a respective betting amount of betting chips at a win time being large continues for several games and the state is aberrant compared with statistical data; 3) a situation in which respective actual winning amounts of the respective players is strange compared with an average wining amount statistically expected based on a history of betting amounts; 4) a situation in which a respective one or more positions of chips wagered by a respective one of the players and a respective amount of chips obtained by the respective player are strange compared with statistical data; or 5) a situation in which a winning rate when the amount of betting is more than a predetermined amount is strange compared with statistical data.
13. The managing system according to claim 1 , wherein the management system is configured to perform the identification of the respective players playing the play positions from respective face images of the players by using a neural network based image recognition technology.
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July 19, 2022
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